Relationships between vegetation zonation and environmental factors in newly formed tidal marshes of the Yangtze River estuary

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-349

  He, Yanlong ^a   Li, Xiuzhen ^a   Craft, Christopher ^b   Ma, Zhigang ^a   Sun, Yongguang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Salinity; Scirpus mariqueter; Spartina alterniflora; Tidal marshes; Yangtze River estuary

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC DEPOSIT; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; GRASS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INVASIVE SPECIES; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SOIL MOISTURE; TIDAL FLAT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER TABLE;

CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

SCIRPUS; SCIRPUS MARIQUETER; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 79960565034     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-011-9220-8     Document Type: Article

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